Aspyr ships Call of Duty: United Offensive
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 29, 2004 at 10:34am
Aspyr is now shipping Call of Duty: United Offensive, the expansion pack to Call of Duty. The expansion pack introduces 13 all-new single-player missions distributed among historical U.S., British and Russian campaigns, an expanded multiplayer experience featuring 11 new maps and three new modes of play, plus new weapons, player abilities and special effects.
Developed by Gray Matter Interactive Studios, Call of Duty: United Offensive has been brought to the Mac by Aspyr and is licensed by Activision. It’s rated “T” (Teen—Blood, Mild Language, Violence) by the ESRB
Call of Duty: United Offensive lets you experience more WWII conflicts through the eyes of Allied soldiers fighting for the liberation of Europe through 13 new single player missions. Featuring three all-new campaigns, the game lets players join the U.S. 101st Airborne during the Battle of the Bulge, the British campaign as an airman shooting down German ME-109s from a B-17 bomber, and the Russian frontlines as a conscript in the crucial eight-day Battle of Kursk. You can fight in tanks, jeeps, and motorcycles, even a bomber. You work with your squad through snow and rain, using new weapons such as flamethrowers and deployable machine guns, or by calling in artillery strikes.
According to Aspyr, the expansion pack also features several enhancements, such as new realistic WWII weapons, including the American M1A1 Bazooka, Russian Tokarev SVT-40 Self-Loading Rifle, portable deployable machine-guns, smoke grenades and more. Furthermore, Gray Matter has added an entirely new special effects system to Call of Duty: United Offensive that Aspyr says offers “realistic explosions, weather and particle effects.”
What’s more, Call of Duty: United Offensive expands on the multiplayer experience of the original Call of Duty. Players can go online for a battle between Axis and Allied powers, now including vehicle combat aboard tanks and jeeps as well as tank-and-foot-soldier combined arms action. The expanded multiplayer component offers 11 new maps and three new modes of play—including Base Assault, Capture the Flag and Domination—where squads must take control of key locations while preventing enemy troops from advancing. Additionally, a newly added ranking system now lets players earn additional weaponry upon completion of objectives and call in artillery support.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
